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...Payday" that New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso will receive $140 million in deferred pay and retirement benefits [NATION, Sept. 8]. There is something wrong when CEOs, board members and upper-level corporate managers get millions in pay and benefits while lower-level managers and rank-and-file employees are laid off or asked to give back pay and benefits for the "good of the company." Why are executives getting these outrageous benefits? Because those who decide on the compensation are CEOs, board members and upper-level managers. When is the American public going to wake up? Every employee...
...Board, Big Payday" that New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso will receive $140 million in deferred pay and retirement benefits [Sept. 8]. There is something wrong when ceos, board members and upper-level corporate managers get millions in pay and benefits while lower-level managers and rank-and-file employees are laid off or asked to give back pay and benefits "for the good of the company." Why are executives getting these outrageous benefits? Because those who decide on the compensation are ceos, board members and upper-level managers. When is the American public going to wake up? Every...
...potential to confuse audiences. It’s often hard for audience members at noise shows to tell how much of the music is previously prepared and how much is spontaneous, whether the artist nodding his head behind his laptop is creating something new or merely playing an MP3 file...
...It’s the same performance dynamic either way,” he says. “Either you go see someone and they’re staring at the screen pressing the space bar playing a WAV file, and they’re staring intently at the screen watching it go by and you think they’re doing something, or you get people that build these ridiculous systems that they start from scratch and do everything unique for every show...
...RIAA’s objection to downloading music does have merit: the act is both illegal and immoral. “File-sharing” paints a rosy picture of a practice that differs little from swiping discs from a record store. Dance rhetorical circles until you’re breathless, but the principle remains that obtaining a song without the artist’s consent is theft. To those of us with consciences, then, downloading music has an additional moral cost; fortunately, there is a solution in pay-for-play websites like Apple’s iTunes and Buymusic.com...